Supreme Court’s Unanimous Civil Asset Forfeiture Decision Leaves Core Issues Undecided
The question remains: Can cops still take your stuff even if you haven’t been convicted of a crime? What if it doesn’t constitute an excessive fine?
If Government Grabbed Big Tech Algorithms, It’d Be A Huge Property Rights Violation
Critics are calling for Congress to force the popular platforms to open their codebooks. This would be bad for those companies and for consumers.
Does White Privilege Theory Pave The Way For South Africa-Style Property Confiscation In The United States?
Given the steady erosion of our constitutional liberties at all levels of government, the time to ponder expropriation without compensation is now.
Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Accountable Capitalism’ Is More Proof Of ‘Progressive’ Feudalism
Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act shows that her ‘progressive’ agenda is to resurrect an essentially feudal approach to property rights.
No One Has A ‘Right’ To Immigrate Into The United States
This is tantamount to saying that individuals have the right to use and occupy someone else’s property against his will. This is a wholesale denial of property and sovereignty rights.
The Left Celebrates July 4 By Denouncing The First Amendment
It is not news that the Left wants to shut us up. But now the leading publication of the mainstream Left is openly coming out against the First Amendment.
Taking The Environment Seriously Starts With Shaking Your Fist At The Kids On Your Lawn
I have grown to appreciate the sentiment behind Earth Day, and environmentalism generally, a bit more as I’ve gotten older and become a property owner, with kids and a mortgage and a yard.
Instead Of Overregulating Tech, Grant People Ownership Of Their Data
If tech regulations are not carefully constructed, they could reduce quality for consumers, fail to encourage competition, and prove a bigger burden to startups than established behemoths.
Supreme Court To Decide Whether You Own Your Own Data
The justices shouldn’t extend law enforcement’s reach beyond our borders. More importantly, Congress needs to update a 30-year-old law for the digital age.
Student Who Stole MAGA Hat, Saying ‘Freedom Of Speech Is Genocide,’ Could Face Felony Charge
After Edith Macias ripped the hat off a fellow student’s head, she brought it to the student life offices, expecting its owner to be punished.
How Civil Asset Forfeiture Reduces Economic Mobility
If President Trump wishes to keep his promises to help low-income Americans escape poverty, he should instruct his administration to jettison, rather than expand, non-criminal asset forfeiture.
New DOJ Rules Increasing Civil Asset Forfeiture Are An Exercise In Swamp Filling
The Trump administration came into office promising to respect states and drain the swamp. This decision does neither.
Yet Another Poll Finds Millennials Incoherent About Basic American Rights
The press release for a new poll makes the welcome claim that ‘Vast, Silent Majority of Millennials Overwhelmingly Support Religious and Social Freedoms.’ Alas, the results are more complicated.
Trump Picks Tea Party Targets, Popular Policy In Joking Promise To ‘Destroy’ Lawmaker’s Career
Possible allies and popular issues are always potential targets of Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip style.
Shooting In Kentucky Taught Me Why Americans Love Guns
When I knew I would be heading to Kentucky, the gateway to the South, experiencing the freedom of shooting was near the top of this Brit’s ‘do list.’
As ‘The Highest-Regulated Race In The World,’ Native Americans Suffer Horrors
After reading Naomi Riley’s ‘The New Trail of Tears,’ one wonders: How many more American Indians have to be beaten, raped, and burned before we are ready to talk about why?
Limiting AirBnb Is One More Way The Rich Squeezes The Middle Class
New York’s attempt to regulate Airbnb would rob middle-class residents of financial opportunity.
Why Access To China Can Be Suicide For U.S. Companies
The lesson from Apple’s China problem is that sharing your intellectual property in exchange for market entry is signing your company’s death certificate.
Why Music Streaming Is Bad For Democracy
The ever-increasing popularity of streaming services like Spotify speaks volumes about the changing view in American society toward the meaning of ownership.
After Kelo, Governments Keep Nabbing Property
After the Supreme Court allowed governments to take anyone’s property for just about any reason, lawmakers pretended to fix the problem. It’s still there.
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